wineberry

1. 1.

   raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits

   SynonymsRubus phoenicolasius

   Broaderraspberry
2. 2.

   graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine

   SynonymsmakomakoNew Zealand wine berryAristotelia serrataAristotelia racemosa

   Broadershrub

   Part ofAristotelia

Other forms of wineberry

plural

wineberries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wineberry

What does wineberry mean?

wineberry means "raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wineberry?

wineberry has 4 syllables: wi-ne-ber-ry. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for wineberry?

Close synonyms include Rubus phoenicolasius, makomako, New Zealand wine berry, Aristotelia serrata, Aristotelia racemosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wineberry a common word?

wineberry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.